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half-tone or half|tone «HAF _TOHN, HAHF-», noun, adjective.

1. a) a process in photoengraving in which gradations of tone in the original painting, drawing, or photograph are reproduced by means of a series of very small dots between fine intersecting blank lines produced by a screen placed in the camera a short distance in front of the sensitized film. b) an illustration made by this process. c) the metal plate made by this process.

2. Fine Arts, Photography. a tone intermediate between the extreme lights and extreme shades.

of or used in the process of making half-tone engravings.

half tone,

1. = half step (Cf. ↑half step); semitone. (Cf. ↑semitone)

2. = half-tone. (Cf. ↑half-tone)